Class Action

A Connecticut judge on Friday wiped out a lawsuit filed by the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that targeted several gun makers, finding the case fit “squarely” within liability protections Congress created for the firearms industry.

Days after the decision, the employment bar is still dissecting a complicated en banc ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that says older job applicants can’t bring discrimination suits based on a theory of disparate impact.

The question of whether class-action and collective-action waivers in employment arbitration agreements violate the NLRA or are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. ¤1 et seq. (FAA), has split the federal circuits.